ADFFS 2.59 released

ADFFS 2.59 is now available from the JASPP site, which enables around 200 games to run on the Iyonix, Raspberry Pi and newer machines. ARMv7 and AArch32 based hardware are now fully supported, enabling games to run on Pi2 and Pi3.

This is the first stable release in three years, with over 10,000 hours of development since the last stable release!

To coincide with this release, the following games are now available to download and work on the Pi:

Hi Jon! I don’t know about the technicalities as far as ADFFS is concerned, but requiring high vectors rules out a lot of people who choose not to run those builds due to software compatibility issues (which is what would cause them to run ADFFS in the first place). If it is practical to support low-vectors, it would benefit hundreds+ of potential users.

If it is practical to support low-vectors, it would benefit hundreds+ of potential users.

The check for High Vectors can be commented out in !Run, but this hasn’t been tested and some known working games will fail. You will however need to be running an OS build of Jun 9th 2016 or newer, as there’s been various bug fixes and extensions added to RISCOS that ADFFS relies on.

What is the harm in a dedicated card, and therefore different OS ROM and Boot etc? If you are playing games, you won’t be multi-tasking. And maybe it’s just me, but I am not sure I would trust my ‘normal’ file system contents to some odds and sods of circa. 1987 code which assumes it is running on an A310! Let alone all the magic ADFFS gets up to to complete the illusion!

What is the harm in a dedicated card, and therefore different OS ROM and Boot etc?

It is a very inconvenient setup if you want to have your applications also on the card (i.e. you need to apply updates always on both cards). And even more inconvenient if you can’t easily access the boot card (typical for “big box” solutions like BIK, PIK, ARMini(X), ARMX6).

Hopefully, Adrian will be able to update Aemulor to run on high vector/zpp builds. I think this is currently the main issue.